Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa where, after a brief taste of winter, temperatures are expected to climb to a bit above historical averages.
I found today’s puzzle quite a bit more difficult than we are accustomed to on Monday.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where Senf’s weather system has yet to reach us and will have warmed considerably by the time it does, giving us a fair amount of rain rather than the mix of rain, freezing rain, ice pellets, and snow that he experienced.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where lazy days lounging in the warm summer sun by the lake have ended for another year and I am busy preparing for the onslaught of the cold snowy days of winter that lie ahead.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where summer continues to linger – in fact, the weather is getting more summery by the day. I am taking advantage of it by spending an extended weekend at a lake well outside the city where I am off-grid – so dealing with a few technical challenges in preparing and posting this review.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where summer (which abandoned us for muc 1h of August) is making amends by hanging around late into September.
This puzzle marks the start of my fourteenth year on Big Dave’s Crossword Blog, my first review having appeared on September 15, 2010.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where we have just experienced a week in which temperatures equalled or surpassed mid-summer values – belatedly making up for a cool, wet August.
I got off to a quick start with today’s puzzle from Campbell but my progress soon slowed to a crawl.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where I have been hunkered down at home for most of the past week dealing with my second bout of Covid – which ironically struck almost a year to the day after my first bout.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where the disaster of the week was a deluge of Biblical proportions causing widespread flooding (Where is Noah when you need him?). Fortunately, my home escaped unscathed.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where we have enjoyed a gloriously sunny weekend. I am stepping in today as a last minute sub for pommers who is off on some hastily arranged travels.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, or actually from a lake near Ottawa where I am off-grid and hoping my batteries last long enough to post this review.
I found today’s puzzle from Campbell to be slightly on the less difficult end of the scale.… Continue reading